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  • New music and events venue could be coming to Birkenhead

    A new live music venue could be coming to Birkenhead, in plans put to Wirral Council. Katie Sutton, from Bridge Street Holdings, is applying to create “an events space including a venue for live music” at a site currently known as Arc House on

  • Annual business expenses for all four Wirral MPs revealed

    Two Wirral MPs cost the taxpayer around £224,000 each last year, new figures reveal. Data from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority shows that Wirral South MP Alison McGovern's total business costs for the 2020-21 financial year were

  • Family threatened with knife during burglary in Birkenhead

    THE occupants of a house in Birkenhead were threatened with a knife during a burglary earlier this morning. Police were called at 12.20am after reports that three males wearing balaclavas had broken into a house on Borough Road. One of the

  • Man who died at house in Heswall was retired police officer

    A man who died from stab wounds at a house in Heswall earlier this week has been formally identified as retired police officer Andrew McDiarmid. Police were called to a property on Oldfield Way in Heswall at around 8.45pm on Monday (January 24)

  • Wirral Olympian Sam Quek to join BBC's 'Morning Live' team

    SAM Quek is to join the team of new presenters on BBC One Daytime's Morning Live. The Wirral-born Olympian and Question of Sport star will join singer Kimberley Walsh, BBC Radio Two's Sara Cox join Kym Marsh as the show prepares to broadcast from

  • Mystery bouquets of cheer delivered to Arrowe Park's Ward 30

    A mystery donor has sent flowers to a ward at Arrowe Park Hospital every month since the beginning of the pandemic. Ward 30, which cares for patients with blood cancers, such as leukaemia and lymphoma and patients receiving palliative care started

  • Wearing of face masks to stay at all Wirral health settings

    FACE mask wearing and social distancing measures will remain in place at Wirral's healthcare settings. Face coverings will no longer be mandatory in public places from tomorrow (Thursday, January 27) . However, the UK Health Security Agency's

  • Plans for 96 new homes in Birkenhead rejected

    PLANS for nearly 100 affordable homes in Birkenhead have been thrown out, as Wirral Council believes the land can be used to create jobs instead. The scheme would have seen a mix of one and two bedroom apartments, as well as two and three bedroom